Application-specific configuration information has historically been stored in INI files, which are plain-text files that contain key/value data within sections. In Windows, the registry has replaced ...

You can simplify application deployment and customization greatly by keeping as many configuration settings as possible in a configuration file. Configuration files support XCOPY deployment, and you ...

Recently, I have been hard at work, creating some really complex PowerShell scripts related to a few projects that I have been working on. One of the big lessons that I have learned through all of ...

A file that contains data about a specific user, program, computer or file. Used for myriad reasons, configuration files are generally read at startup by the operating system as well as by ...

In my previous article in this series, I explained that you can make your PowerShell scripts far more flexible and dynamic by leveraging a configuration file as opposed to hard coding all of the ...

For example, you can add the configSource attribute to your connectionStrings section to move your connection strings to a separate file (called connstrings.config in this example): The file referred ...

Take advantage of configuration providers and dependency injection to configure your ASP.Net Core applications in a loosely coupled manner Microsoft’s ASP.Net Core is an open-source, cross-platform, ...

If Microsoft 365 deployment tool is not working properly, and you see We couldn't find the specified configuration file, Download failed ODT error, see this post.